About the role:
Samsara’s Hardware Quality team enables an exceptional customer experience by building reliable hardware, identifying opportunities to improve the customer experience, and engaging cross-functionally to resolve key issues. In this role, a successful candidate will help build our Embedded Systems (HW/FW) Automation Test Framework. This key role will enable teams to ship high-quality products, ship FW updates to our customers faster, and facilitate quality investigations.
This is a hybrid position requiring 3 days per week in our San Francisco office and 2 days working remotely. Housing and relocation will be supported as part of the role. At this time, we are not accepting first or second-year undergraduate students.
You should apply if:
- You want to impact the industries that run our world: Your efforts will result in real-world impact—helping to keep the lights on, get food into grocery stores, reduce emissions, and most importantly, ensure workers return home safely.
- You are the architect of your own career: If you put in the work, this role won’t be your last at Samsara. We set up our employees for success and have built a culture that encourages rapid career development, countless opportunities to experiment and master your craft in a hyper growth environment.
- You’re energized by our opportunity: The vision we have to digitize large sectors of the global economy requires your full focus and best efforts to bring forth creative, ambitious ideas for our customers.
- You want to be with the best: At Samsara, we win together, celebrate together and support each other. You will be surrounded by a high-calibre team that will encourage you to do your best.
In this role, you will:
- Build and maintain test infrastructure (SW, FW, and HW) to perform automated testing across Samsara’s current product portfolio and future designs.
- Use your passion for testing software, firmware, and hardware to build a solution that stresses our embedded systems and helps identify failure points to improve the design, reliability and performance of our products.
- Build the framework for testing our hardware/firmware platforms by working closely with the development team (FW, EE, ME, NPI) to define product test plans and ensure we have complete test coverage.
- Test and verify features of the test infrastructure and manage the cross-organizational deployment and training.
- Champion, role model, and embed Samsara’s cultural principles (Focus on Customer Success, Build for the Long Term, Adopt a Growth Mindset, Be Inclusive, Win as a Team) as we scale globally and across new offices
Required requirements for the role:
- Pursuing an undergraduate or master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering graduating in 2026.
- Python programming skills and Scripting skills.
- Basic knowledge of Automated Test Frameworks and Software Tools.
Preferred requirements for the role:
- Understanding of IoT hardware.
- Understanding of Software Development.
- Experience building Automated Test Frameworks and Software Tools for Product Development and Validation.
- Experience creating and implementing test cases for wireless protocols.
- Experience with test instrumentation, including the use of power supplies, power analyzers, battery simulators, call boxes, and GPS simulators.
- Experience building and maintaining automation testing infrastructure.
- Experience testing devices with wireless protocols including BLE, WiFi, LTE, and GNSS.
- Experience with data analysis tools/packages such as SQL, Pandas, databricks, etc